Fifty years in Dorking

Posted by Martin Stabe on 10 March 2006 at 10:29
Tags: Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, Journalism, Northcliffe, Trinity Mirror

Greta Morley has been at the Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser for half a century.

Morley, now a grandmother-of-five, started on the paper as a 17-year-old in 1954 under then-editor Bill Williams. She moved to Northcliffe newspapers on Fleet Street in 1957, but returned to Dorking two years later to edit a Woman’s Page. In the 1970s, she became features editor and in 1987 became the first woman to be editor of The Advertiser. She retired in 1996, but has continued to contribute to the paper, producing its Yesteryear section with another long-serving employee, Maureen Lewington.

Tags: Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, Journalism, Northcliffe, Trinity Mirror